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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Nobody falls for this anymore. Scrum are agile are extremely effective at fostering micromanagement and overworking and burning out developers. It's almost always pushed by management, consultants, PMs rather than the ones that have to
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent ... ? Why do you ask question in such a biased frame? Why don't you ask instead: Why don't other companies have moral standards?
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Use OS packages instead.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
More surveillance.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> With a Go program one just drops a statically compiled binary in $PATH and it just works. Until one of the statically compiled dependencies needs a security fix. Then people realize why shared objects where invented.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
See the other replies and connect it to: https://edri.org/edrigramnumber10-2silent-sms-tracking-suspe...
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Excellent example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
I wouldn't, but this is besides the point. Is it ethically acceptable to join a weapon manufacturer? A drug cartel? The SS? You always have to draw a line somewhere.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
airplane mode means no transmission. The phone can still receive and might be remotely activated by a so-called silent text.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
The amount of pollution per person varies wildly. Some societies were perfectly sustainable. Among the most capitalistic and consumerist societies (e.g. US) the pollution is staggering. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> smart engineers from Google Questionable. > well-tested and maintained Not really. > well-documented Not really. > has permissions and isolation for apps which Debian doesn't have Having compared google play and the apt-g
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Surveillance aside, since when has it been a human right to attend a festival in a country you are not allowed to reside in? This is a pure strawman. The efforts and the social impact of chasing people doing something illegal must be b
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It takes a lot of faith to overlook the many impending environmental disasters. Many also cling to the false dichotomy between capitalism and "soviet russia / north korea / venezuela"
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Self-driving vehicles won’t deliver a transport revolution(citymetric.com)
3 points by eeZah7Ux 7y ago|0 comments
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> as an individual i see no problem with resisting the manipulation of large corporations. > it's peer pressure that i can't entirely escape You are contradicting yourself. Peer pressure and society are simply stronger. >
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Have you tried reading the documentation the average engineer makes? Yes. Don't hire the average engineer.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
everyone praising Gitlab? No, not at all.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Please link to a better video.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
You can nitpick all you want but both the "dark" and "hidden" words sound sinister to a lot of people.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It's very negative.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Yes. Do the analysis.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Smart speakers are designed to listen, obviously! Streaming audio is not seen as suspicious. Also they aren not phones and not using wifi, not LTE/4G uplinks, making it more easy to stream audio without hitting bandwidth caps or using
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Please ban this garbage article.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Nobody wants to read about your boring-ass life. On the contrary, aggregated personal data sells for a lot of money. Entire companies exist only to collect it.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
It's very different. Smart speakers are much better at invading privacy.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
The flurry of downvotes is telling.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Spot on. This whole thread on HN reeks of "I was just following orders".
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Slack is entirely designed to encourage casual chat-like conversation with emoticons, reactions & so on. Want meaningful async communication? Think of the UIs of usenet clients or even email clients.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Spot on. The smugness it takes to compare a paid product that spies on you to a gift from [paid and unpaid] volunteers.
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by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
Not all of them - you are generalizing. Not all of them - you are generalizing. Not all of them - you are generalizing.

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